AMLO All Along
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
The Virtual Watchers
The Virtual Watchers, a collaborative project between Spanish artist and researcher Joana Moll and French anthropologist Cédric Parizot, looks critically at an online platform of 20,633 volunteers across the globe surveilling the US-Mexico border
What is Aleppo?
Aleppo is every broken promise, bundled lie, and double standard implicit in the mantra “never again.”
Undivided Essay
Forget the story.
What’s Killing Jessie Spano?
America loves to watch its best and brightest come undone, but it’s never really understood them. Look at Jessie Spano.
Sunday Reading
dylan lyric, see, I know his music
The innocently readable novel
Ge Fei's The Invisibility Cloak
The Unproven Body
Charting the losses of contestable sickness
People Sorters
The idea of regulating immigration by questionnaire is not so far-fetched, nor is it new.
Is There Such a Thing as the "Bipartisan Updo"?
It’s no accident that we think of Republican women's hairstyles as being...conservative.
Sunday Reading
Certainly has been an interesting endless parade of hellish torments!
Hollywood's Drug War
Day of the Dead Rhetoric
Testing Beyond Control
In search of support, not surveillance
Mass authentic
Authenticity is internal to consumer culture, not the remnants of what preceded it.
Ars longa, vita brevis
oceans are big. ripples fade.
Fully Surreal Luxury Communism
"Bourgeois Art" and "A Note to the Communist Party," essays excerpted from René Magritte: Selected Writings
Bail Bloc 2.0
Our work on immigration, ICE, borders, and detention
Liquid Border
An excerpt from The Law of the Sea by Annalisa Camilli
United States v. Scott Daniel Warren
The criminalization of humanitarian aid at the border enacts a fantasy of desolate individuation. Scott Warren’s felony trial reiterates the necessity to keep reaching out.
Abolish the ICE Prison Complex
A recent Supreme Court decision reminds us that the law has no interest in lifting the veil that covers immigration prisons
Border Theories
What would it look like to put a power structure on trial? Interweaving visual narratives of the Mexico–United States border show the uneasy relation between objects and people.
Soft Borders
The soft patriotic trust in Canada's softly administered border is fully compatible with the logic of restriction.
Fash at Sea
The end of Defend Europe’s fascistic campaign to block migrants’ boats in the Mediterranean doesn’t mean the threat is over
Operation Streamline
The border’s dream is for undocumented immigrants to be its most reliable missionaries. But the immigrant who crosses the border is the affirmation of a life that transcends it.
In the Water
An immigrant in the water is a story or a lesson, but an immigrant on land is our responsibility--they might become our neighbor
Cross-Border Operations
It is no longer plausible to describe the state’s borders as geographically fixed or the state as distinguishable from capital or “markets.”
Empire Records
Guantánamo Diary's missing passages connect it with the US empire's deeper history of far-flung capture and detention networks